The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1887-03-04
PIONEERS IN PROHIBITION

Rhode Island, Kansas, and Iowa
The Stage was gay with floral gifts
In front Of it were the reporters ia.
bles. Representatives of the press
we're there from Philadelphia, Wash
ington, Minneapolis, St. Paul, etc.
The Union Signal published q
daily, which WAS at the literature
Ia Ole, in the rear of the rooms. The
first account OF the Minneapolis Iri
bune gave was headed "Noble Won.
en- Minneapolis Honored by the
Presence of Them" The aged moth
err of our National President was in
troduced in the early part of the
meeting, and although in her 82nd
year sat most of its sessions. Miss
Willard said in the home of Laughing
Water it is easy to recall the words
OF Lengfellow Ia his immortal Hia-
watha: You have come so far to
see us II have thought how dear
mother has come down through all
these years to see u.s. Our Presi.
dent began her annual address, with
Margaret Bright Lucas the illustrious
sister of the renowned statesman
John Bright, of England, by her side
She, too. had come so far to see US.
Hannah Whital Smith beamed over
white cap
A PLEASANT SIGNAL
to me as it rose that something now
would be said Just to the point. She
had just returned from Europe,
where she joined US to the Worlds
W C. I. U. with Margaret Lucas as
President.
ADDRESS OF A REMARK.
ABLE WOMAN.
l could not On this occasion give
you a resume of the annual address
of Miss Frances Willard. [ recon.
mend to your perusal as the address
of one ofthe most remarkable women
of hrr day-deIivered to an individ-
ualized assembly of women, such an
assembly as is only possible in Amer
lea. Permit me to refer to few
notable incidents in the course of
the reading Of the address. In re
rerring to our around the-world mis-,
sionary Mary Clement Lavitt, who
has now in the third year of her
lonely pilgrimage travelled more
than $4,000 miles said: Il wish we
could cross the 5000 miles of glitter
inc sea between US and Tokohoma
and in Imagination wave the Chau.
tauqua salute in honor Of this brave
pioneer, when all arose and sang
In the beauties of the lilies Christ
was born across the sea-" We miss
ed our cornetist, with her golden cor
net this year. She was too i'll to
meet with us this year. Again there
was an impressive interlude when
Miss Willard welcomed our English
delegates from across the Atlantic
our Canadian fraternal delegates and
the one from the Sandwich Islands
She said: I may well parody the
lines of Tennyson when the
Princess Alexandria came from Den
mark to STARE the life Of the heir
to the English throne:
"For Saxon or Dane or Norman we
Teuton or Celt whatever webe
We are each all Dane in welcoming thee;''
and say
Northern or SO uthern or Western we
Each he art is all English in welcoming ye."
and turned clasping the hanl
of Margaret Lucas, saying, "For
the first time in history the imperial
mother and the dauntless daughter
of the Anglo Saxon race clasp hands
in union never to be broken
DELEGATES ON THEIR FEET.
All our delegates then rose to
welcome those standing on our plat
form. First the crusaders rose-and
for the information of those who are
not in our ranks l may say by the
crusaders we mean those women who
were in the crusade of Ohio in 1878.
IA and out of which the Woman
Christian Temperance Union sprang.
So many women stood up, that while
not doubling that everyone of these
was original, I said to myself, are the
original crusaders to be like the ser
wants of General misunderstanding
uitous, and still in the memory of
the oldest inhabitants? AS we stood
Margaret Lucas said: Il am over
whelmed with the grandeur Of this
mnrninn,s meeting after which we